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It's a shame that Talking Pictures channel is not being received by everyone for reasons given in this thread..
I notice on Friday they are showing The Red House a moody drama with Edward G Robinson, possibly an old low budget pot boiler? ..not sure .
...but nevertheless has not been on Brit TV since 1966!

It's an atmospheric thriller that frightened me to death (in 1966??) though on recent viewing, I find it to be pretty slow and strung-out, albeit with a good score by Miklos Rozsa. The photography is very effective, though it's quite difficult to fully appreciate it due to the poor prints that have been available.

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It's a shame that Talking Pictures channel is not being received by everyone for reasons given in this thread..
I notice on Friday they are showing The Red House a moody drama with Edward G Robinson, possibly an old low budget pot boiler? ..not sure .
...but nevertheless has not been on Brit TV since 1966!

The DVD version of The Red House I have is from Elstree Hill Entertainment, and although watchable could be a lot better in many ways. It's amazing what is on YouTube now, with many interesting films being added daily. There is a very good version of The Red House on there at present.

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Crikey! there it is on YT and a shared experience of it with Gerald Lovell, how amazing.
I looked up another film on the BBC database Seven Waves Away and they apparently have never shown it at all...It's on YT under the US title Abandon Ship and gave it about 5 minutes and could see why they never bought it.

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Ran the check; our transmitter is Hemel Hempstead; it seems we need COM7 for TP - and HH doesn't transmit that. (Forgive me, I am utterly untechnical). Exasperating that all these little local channels carry it (such as That's Solent (at least in part) but 20 miles from London and its a no go.

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Freeview has apparently just done a retune of its channels and some of them have disappeared, including 81. Maybe it's regional (East Anglia) but I rang the Freeview helpline and after half an hour trying the remedies they suggest, there's still nothing. Wasn't bad while it lasted but alas, no more. I hope TP tells its advertisers about this drop in "circulation".

It was in a 2 hour slot and only ran for 68mins with commercials!! The film supposed to run for 96mins......very strange.

From memory you did not miss much- one of those dreary old pot boilers that once famous actresses found themselves having to do in later years(Connecting Rooms- Bette Davis- Raintree County -Elizabeth Taylor etc)-

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From memory you did not miss much- one of those dreary old pot boilers that once famous actresses found themselves having to do in later years(Connecting Rooms- Bette Davis- Raintree County -Elizabeth Taylor etc)-

Maybe not a good film but why show it the way they did? I wonder if this has been done before on TP tv?

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Maybe not a good film but why show it the way they did? I wonder if this has been done before on TP tv?

Being shown in a shorter version takes the pain out of the viewer!!

From TP's ethos about films I don't think they would intentionally muck about with the integrity of a movie and would do their best to show what the director intended...obviously not always possible when they are also trying their best to get us the forgotten and neglected and where there is no money available to strike new prints...however the mystery deepens as the censors' site shows the original 1970 UK release as 91 minutes and the 2010 DVD also at 91 minutes (give or take a few seconds between them), it also mentions no cuts were ever required to the film.

So I reckon there are two possibilities - timings wrong on the TV schedule timer (that has happened before) ..but more than likely it was an American TV print ....they use to hack foreign films to pieces to fill a slot.....I would suspect that TP had a hard job of finding this film as intended?.....Appears to have been only ever shown once on analogue TV

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From memory you did not miss much- one of those dreary old pot boilers that once famous actresses found themselves having to do in later years(Connecting Rooms- Bette Davis- Raintree County -Elizabeth Taylor etc)-

Raintree County is certainly a flawed movie, but to describe it as a “dreary old potboiler” is way off the mark.

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Caught Say Hello to Yesterday (1971) on LondonLive this time and now know what TPtv did to it,They showed it without the first 40mins of the film as there was no beginning credits on TPtv showing (no wonder it was soshort lol ) but LondonLive showed it complete thank goodness

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i've been watching the re-runs of Spooks (AKA MI-5) on London Live and last night I also caught (& recorded) For Queen & Country (1988) starring Denzil Washington as an ex-paratrooper returning to his old stomping ground in London. What I've seen of it so far looks quite good

Steve

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When TPTV first showed Major Barbara (1941), they clearly ran out of time because after a commercial break, notwithstanding there were 20 minutes or so of the film left to run, they simply went onto the next programme on their schedule. I think this has happened with a number of their films. And fairly frequently, the sound goes out of sync.

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When TPTV first showed Major Barbara (1941), they clearly ran out of time because after a commercial break, notwithstanding there were 20 minutes or so of the film left to run, they simply went onto the next programme on their schedule. I think this has happened with a number of their films.

Sorry Gerald, you mean they just left the film unfinished? That's incredible. Sounds like the TPTV schedulers don't have a clue about the running time of the films they show. You'd think they would just run their following programmes a little late, or even (heaven forbid) cut back on the adverts.

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When TPTV first showed Major Barbara (1941), they clearly ran out of time because after a commercial break, notwithstanding there were 20 minutes or so of the film left to run, they simply went onto the next programme on their schedule. I think this has happened with a number of their films. And fairly frequently, the sound goes out of sync.

That's happened to me a few times as well. I get the feeling that there's not always someone there keeping an eye on the shop.